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Anonabox Accused of Lying About Its Product Being Open-Source On Kickstarter
blottsie writes The "anonabox" has raised more than $550,000 on Kickstarter in only three days. But some believe the company's claims that the router-like device, which is said to automatically route users' Internet traffic through Tor, is entirely open-source are false. Anonabox developer August Germar tells the Daily Dot, however, that the device was commissioned specifically to run their code.
The issue doesnt seem to be the code.
People are claiming that the hardware is just a re-flashed existing micro router, eg here - http://www.aliexpress.com/item...
Anonabox claim they custom designed the hardware, other are claiming it doesnt seem so, mostly it seems like it a moot point if it's cheap and offers the functionality specified.
Someone else put together a handy picture highlighting a number of the errors present in just the description of the product:
https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/st...
Some of them seem to be worth a laugh.
This "knockoff of a tp-link router" really needs to stop. It is not true. Some guy wrote it on Reddit and it's been repeated all over the place since. This isn't Reddit now, is it?
If you're going to argue that someone isn't being honest, at least try to be honest yourself.
The mentioned model, a TP-Link MR-3020, is a single ethernet port Atheros chipset device.
The router used in the campaign is a Nexx WT3020A, which is a 2-port Ralink chipset device.
Just because something looks similar, and something about it was said on the internet and repeated all over the place a bunch of times, doesn't make it true. But it does seem to make it here eventually.
Here's the internal board view from their own site.
You can clearly see unsoldered pins for USB port and "WT3020-V1.0 2014-01-18" inscription on the board.